title: ESUMS: a mobile system for continuous home monitoring of rehabilitation patients.
abstract: The pressure on the healthcare services is building up for several reasons. The ageing population trend, the increase in life-style related disease prevalence, as well as the increased treatment capabilities with associated general expectation all add pressure. The use of ambient healthcare technologies can alleviate the situation by enabling time and cost-efficient monitoring and follow-up of patients discharged from hospital care. We report on an ambulatory system developed for monitoring of physical rehabilitation patients. The system consists of a wearable multisensor monitoring device; a mobile phone with client application aggregating the data collected; a service-oriented-architecture based server solution; and a PC application facilitating patient follow-up by their health professional carers. The system has been tested and verified for accuracy in controlled environment trials on healthy volunteers, and also been usability tested by 5 congestive heart failure patients and their nurses. This investigation indicated that patients were able to use the system, and that nurses got an improved basis for patient follow-up.
authors.forename: Frode
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Strisland
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Svagård
authors.forename: Trine M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Seeberg
authors.forename: Bjørn Magnus
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Mathisen
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vedum
authors.forename: Hanne O
authors.initials: HO
authors.lastname: Austad
authors.forename: Anders E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Liverud
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kofod-Petersen
authors.forename: Ole Christian
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: Bendixen
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D040421:Cell Phone; D003201:Computers; D004867:Equipment Design; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software